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NOVA: Season 1

13 episodes · first aired Mar 3, 1974

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1 The Making Of A Natural History Film Mar 3, 1974 · 55m NOVA premieres on public television with a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a nature film. Oxford Scientific Films Unit shows how it tackles such problems as filming a wood-wasp…
2 Where Did the Colorado Go? Mar 10, 1974 · 55m NOVA explores the mighty Colorado River which today has become the life-blood of the Southwest, providing water and electricity to the farms and cities of California, Nevada, and Arizona…
3 Whales, Dolphins, and Men Mar 17, 1974 · 55m NOVA explores the impact of whaling and the goods it produces for the industry, verses the grace and beatury of this intelligent mammal of the sea.
4 The Search For Life Mar 24, 1974 · 55m Does life exist outside this planet? The Viking lander will set down on Mars in July 1976 to try to find out just that. NOVA explores how life started on Earth and examines the Viking…
5 Last of the Cuiva Mar 31, 1974 · 55m How does a primitive nomadic tribe of the Amazon basin cope with the encroachment of Western settlers? NOVA looks at both sides of the story, revealing the misunderstandings between the…
6 Strange Sleep Apr 7, 1974 · 55m Medicine was transformed in the 19th century by the discovery of anesthesia; surgery, until then hasty, bloody and completely unable to deal with internal disorders, subsequently took its…
7 The Crab Nebula Apr 14, 1974 · 55m In 1054 AD, the Chinese recorded the explosion of a star so bright that it lit the sky for three weeks, even during the day. It was the explosion of a dying star that was bigger than our…
8 Bird Brain: The Mystery of Bird Navigation Apr 21, 1974 · 55m Birds migrate in search of perpetual summer, sometimes traveling as much as 20,000 miles every year. NOVA uses radar to track and identify migrating birds that travel at night, focusing on…
9 Are You Doing This for Me, Doctor? Apr 28, 1974 · 55m The advance of medicine depends inevitably on the testing of experimental procedures on human volunteers from either the healthy or the sick. Yet such procedures are often dangerous, and…
10 The First Signs Of Washoe May 5, 1974 · 55m Washoe is a chimp more like a person: she talks with her hands. NOVA visits with Washoe and her teachers—Professor Allen Gardner and Dr. Trixie Gardner—to learn more about this unusual…
11 The Case of the Midwife Toad May 12, 1974 · 55m When Paul Kammerer committed suicide in 1926, it was taken by most of his fellow biologists as a tacit admission of guilt that he had faked his experiments purporting to show the…
12 Fusion: The Energy of Promise May 19, 1974 · 55m Nuclear fusion offers the promises of an unlimited, clean source of energy. But achieving fusion has proved one of the most difficult and elusive goals of the physicist. NOVA tells the…
13 The Mystery Of The Anasazi May 26, 1974 · 55m Who were the people that built the first cities -- complete with apartment blocks -- in North America? They were the Anasazi Indians, who lived in the Southwest for some eight or nine…